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Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year’s Eve — and that he’s the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he’s a “no” vote on health care reform.

So, Massa attended a wedding. One of his staffers, after “15 gin and tonics and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne” suggested that Massa “should be chasing after the bridesmaid” – in words “far more colorful than that.” !

Then Massa grabbing a staff member says “What I really ought to be doing is frakking you”, tossled the guy’s hair and left, knowing that “the party was getting to a point where I shouldn’t be there.”

And this calls for a complaint how ? And why ? Of course there’s also the anonymous aide who readily offers that Massa “has been engaged in inappropriate behavior ‘for eight months’.” !

I agree cj: Eerily similar to how Obama eliminated opponents in Chicago!Creepy!

I don’t know pips, now the news media’s painting him as nuts. I don’t know anything about the man, so who knows how this scandal’s going to develop, but right now I have a strong feeling that he’s telling the truth.

You know, as someone reminded me on another blog, that’s the method used in the former Soviet Union to silence political opposition: Paint them as psychical unstable, then confine them to a mental institution. The first part seems to work pretty well even today.